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Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion. [259] 2007: January 10: Product: Facebook launches m.facebook.com and officially announces mobile support. [321] 2007: May 24: Product: Facebook announces Facebook Platform for developers to build applications on top of Facebook's social graph. [322 ...
Dustin Aaron Moskovitz [1] (/ ˈ m ɒ s k ə v ɪ t s /; born May 22, 1984) [2] is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta Platforms) with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. [3] In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana [4] with Justin Rosenstein.
Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [122] through privacy settings. [123] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.
Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C., to a Jewish family, [11] [12] the daughter of Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three children. [2] [13] Her father is an ophthalmologist, and her mother, whose grandparents immigrated from Belarus, was a college professor of French language.
Eduardo Luiz Saverin (/ ˈ s æ v ər ɪ n / SAV-ər-in, Brazilian Portuguese: [eduˈaʁdu luˈis saveˈɾĩ] ⓘ; born March 19, 1982) [4] is a Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur and angel investor, known for having co-founded Facebook. [5] In 2012, he owned about 2% of Facebook shares, [6] valued at approximately $2 billion at the time.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.
Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) [2] is an American pediatrician and a philanthropist. [3] She and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015 with a pledge to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion.
Palihapitiya in 2007 speaking at a Facebook event. Palihapitiya's work at Facebook in his first year was messy, by his own account. [16] Palihapitiya led the release of Facebook Beacon, an advertising system which failed and became the subject of lawsuits. Palihapitiya next focused on new user growth; after four years, Facebook had 1 billion users.